Improvement in prtjning-shears



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Lettere-Patent N 106,538, cla-tell AugustQlSi'O.

Irl/:PROYruvm1y'r IN PRUNINQLSHEARS.'

The Schedule referred to in these Leners Patent and making part of the sam To all whom, it lmaj; concern:

".c it known that I, GEORG Renesse, of Washington, Franklin county, State of Missouri, have in- Vvented a new and useful Improvement in Pruning- Shears, of which the following is a full, clear, and' exact description, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a pair of shears having my im'- provemeut attached.

Figures 2 and 3 represent detached views of said improvement.

Similar letters indicate like parts.

My invention consists in an attachment for pruu ing-shears, bywhiclu'when the clipping is out off, it may still he held ,by-'the' shears, ailxdln'evented from dropping to the groundil The shears D, fig. 1, show one form to which I propose to attach my improvement, and, for illust-ration merely, my description will be directed especially to this form. f v y A casing, b, figs'. 1, 2, and 3, shape'd to correspond to the blade A,has pivoted to it, at c, igs.' 1 vand 3, two blades or arms, d d', figs. 1 and 42, d', fig. 3, the

latter having on one edge a. stud,l e, figs. 1, 2, and 3,

and at its extremity a hook, h, figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Beneath d, and acting upon it, as seen, is a spring, o, Iig. 2.

'lhe casing'has a slot, m, iig. 3, into which the blade A fits, and isthcre held by the thumb-screw n, figs. 2 and 3. The other blade, passes iuto'the hook h, as seen in fig. 1.

. Now, when the blades A and B are brought together,the arm d is, bythe action of the plate s, fig. 1,011 the stud e, forced down uuiforluly with it, till, meeting the twig to be cut, it presses it against the other blade 1,'holding it iirmly, while the cuttingblade B passes on, seveling the twig in the usual way, there being, of course, space left between the arm d andthe blade A, toallow the blade B to pass, so as "to meet the blade A.; The spring o gives the arm d ithe; necessary elasticity during the operation.

.This attachment will be found especially useful when'picking grapes, Vor other fruit. or flowers which it is desirable to save as much as possible from bruis` ing, since, by its use, they are' removed therefrox'n by thchand, o r placed directly iuthe box or other receptacle.

,This attachment, of course, is adapted to all instruments having the scissors movement, it only'being necessary that the-shapeandsiae of the various parts should conform to that of :the blades of Ithe' instrumentv with which they' are to be used.

,v In pruning-shears las now generally constructed, the cutting-blade is attached to a plate like s, whichl affords the necessary projection for the stud e to work against., butl whenever the blade has not suchplate of course its place must be -supplied by attaching to ita substitute therefor, as a metal stud of the required outline, or, perhaps, making ,a groove in the blade, and forming thestud c so as to run in it, o1 by other equivalent device.

What I claim jas my invention, and desire to se- ,curey by Letters Patent, is- Y 1.. The blades d el', case b, aud springA o, in combination with the blades A and B, and arranged, oo nstructed, and operating jointly, as and for the purpose shown audspecified.

' 2. As a new article of manufacture, an attachment for shears, composed of the blades (l cl",case b, and spring o, arranged and constructed as and for the pur- Witnesses :M

SAMLS. BOYD, LEwls MYERS. 

